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by mikewarot 102 days ago
Who in their right mind is going to blindly trust an AI like that? There wasn't any review of the numbers, or even a hint of a "sniff test" on the output of the AI?

Would a real person risk their reputation like that?

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With regard to the attempted redefinition of a commonly used term, I'm reminded of Gretchen, from the Mean Girls, trying to redefine "Fetch!"[1]

It's just not going to happen.

[1] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0377092/quotes/

5 comments

Who’s going to trust an AI like that? Maybe the Meta Superintelligence safety director.

https://www.fastcompany.com/91497841/meta-superintelligence-...

> Who in their right mind is going to blindly trust an AI like that?

… particularly with acts that have legal implications like … well, almost everything, but particularly communication with investors or board members.

If people can get slides or summaries by pushing a button, they don't need others to push the button for them.

This is that 2024 trope of "the AI is turning my 5 bullet points into a proper email to send." "And my AI is summarising all those long boring emails into bullet points!".

The slide deck won't be viewed by a human. It'll be read by the human's pet LLM and then summarised into 3 bullet points.

We need to cast off the idea that all of our data should be accessible from every device, or that a personal computer is the one hub of all of our data. It's so 90's. It's giving "computer room".

This seems like a good device for working on a single project of well-defined scope. You can give it whatever context it needs by including the relevant data, and no one's asking you to log into your Apple or Google account to go through your private photos. Keep separate things separate.

A few years ago I would not believe that AI would be able to write code better than me. Today I barely write any code, Claude is responsible for 95% of my code output.

Maybe in a couple of iterations, you'd be able to trust the AI to straight up drive your computer with access to all important parts of your digital life most of the time and only occasionally have to manually stop it from wiring all your savings and 401k to a struggling Nigerian prince.

I mean, I would, and I will. There are enough people that will allow this. Just look at the OpenClaw hype. I have also seen a lot of my friends build these type of automations for themselves; or attempt to. Which leads me to believe there is a huge market for.
I think the actual question parent wants to ask is "what kind of business user would ever use that", which is a very different thing from "why would a random Twitter user use and post about it"